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To: James C. Bennett

To be “secular” is a long way from being Jewish. Have you ever met any Messianic Jews—people who accept Jesus as the Messiah?


19 posted on 07/16/2011 10:55:47 PM PDT by hellbender
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To: hellbender

I know. I’ve been to Israel, and have friends and acquaintances there. A significant proportion of the people there are secular. The rest are Jewish, and a minority, Muslims and Christians.

India has religious freedom, and you are right, Christians are persecuted. However, the persecution isn’t one-way. Ever heard of the NLFT? They’re a Christian group which would put the Taliban to shame:

National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT)

The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) was formed in December 1989 for the purpose of seceding from India in order to create an independent Christian fundamentalist state of Tripura. The group was banned under the Unlawful Activies Prevention Act of 1967.

The headquarters of NLFT is located in the Khagrachari district of Bangladesh, about 40-45 km southeast of Simanapur.

In Tripura a systematic surrender of arms by a faction of NLFT insurgents and NLFT fringe groups is due to the increased security pressure and to infighting within NLFT insurgent ranks. Since 2000 a few hundred militants have surrendered in small groups to the security forces, handing in their weapons. The NLFT leadership engaged in peace talks with Mizoram Chief Zoramthanga in April 2001, however the NLFT has not promised acceptance of any future peace process.

The NLFT has set up a number of camps in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), in the Sylhet, Maulavi Bazar, Habiganj and Comilla regions. NLFT also has ties with Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence Agency (ISI).

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/nlft.htm

Have a look at the list of atrocities committed by them:

http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/tripura/terrorist_outfits/NLFT_tl.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2696965.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4190570.stm


25 posted on 07/16/2011 11:09:34 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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